dividualadj.n.

/dɪˈvɪdjuːəl/

Etymology: < Latin dīviduus divisible, separated + -al suffix¹.

A. adj.

1. That is or may be divided or separated from something else; separate, distinct, particular.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > separate or separated

sunderedc1230

ysondredc1380

discretea1398

divisec1420

dissevered1471

separate?a1475

separated1535

semoted1542

dissociate1548

dirempt1580

dissundered1580

severed1581

parted1595

dividual1598

twain1600

sejunct1602

disassociated1611

dissociated1611

dividenta1616

entire to itselfa1618

interstinct1623

disjected1647

segregant1647

severized1649

divided1658

separate1667

secrete1678

disaffiliated1839

dirempted1900

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Diuisible, separable, diuiduall.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 85 True Libertie..which alwayes with right Reason dwells Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being.

1765 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 4) V. vi. vi. 300 The two..scarce dividual.

1836 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 40 536 A union of the mind's dividual acts.

1856 T. Aird Poet. Wks. (new ed.) 147 The Seasons..Come and go with sweet dividual change.

2. Capable of being divided into parts, divisible; divided into parts, fragmentary.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [adjective] > divided > able to be divided

partablec1400

departable1483

partible1540

severable1548

divisible1552

dividable1587

dividuala1620

depertible1626

dividuous1766

sliceable1976

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. vii. §1. 50 Some make their god of Atomes, and indiuidual moates; some of diuidual numbers; as Epicurus, and Pythagoras.

1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline iv. 13 When any one would shew much variety of exercise, then 8. will be the more pliant and dividual number [of soldiers].

1657 T. M. Life Satyrical Puppy 10.

18.. Lowell Ambrose in Poet. Wks. (1879) 772 ‘Believest thou then’..Cried he, ‘a dividual essence in Truth?’

3. Divided or distributed among a number; shared, participated, held in common.

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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [adjective] > dividing and sharing > divided and shared

ydeled1297

parted1596

participated1614

divideda1616

dividual1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 382 The Moon..her Reign With thousand lesser Lights dividual holds.

1735 H. Brooke Universal Beauty iv. 132 While thro' the pores nutritive portions tend, Their equal aliment dividual share.

1818 H. T. Colebrooke Treat. Obligations & Contracts 141 The rule holds when the obligation is dividual.

†B. n. Obsolete.

1. That which is dividual; something divided or capable of being divided.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > one of the parts into which anything is divided > portion of anything divided

dividend1477

canta1542

fee1573

cantoning1625

dividual1668

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) Schol. 553 This is that of Gregory Nazianzen, ἀμέριστος ἐν μεμερισμένοις ἡ θεότης, The Individual Divinity in Dividuals.

2. Mathematics. In the process of division: One of the several parts of the dividend, each of which yields successively one figure or term of the quotient.

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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > [noun] > division > divisor or dividend

divisorc1430

particular numbera1464

dividend1543

divident?a1560

subdivident1581

dividual1704

divider1797

1704 in J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Dividuale (in Arithm.) is a Number in the Rule of Division, comprehending part of the Dividend distinguished by a Point; whereof the Question must be ask'd, How often the Divisor is contain'd in it?

1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 62 A new dividend, or dividual, to work upon.

Derivatives

diˈvidualism n.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > [noun] > capability of

divisibility1644

partibility1644

dividuity1656

dividableness1674

divisiblenessa1691

dividuality1803

dividualism1883

1883 F. Galton Inq. Human Faculty 169 Individualism is changed to dividualism.

dividuˈality n. (used as the opposites of individualism, individuality).

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